Tuesday 3 January 2023

New Year Honour for Keble Fellow

Congratulations to Professor Edward Harcourt who has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Interdisciplinary Research in the 2023 New Year Honours List.

Edward Harcourt is a Professor of Philosophy and Fellow by Special Election at Keble. His research is in ethics, in particular in moral psychology. He has published on topics including neo-Aristotelianism and child development, the ethical dimensions of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the moral emotions, love and the virtues, Nietzsche’s ethics, the philosophy of mental health and mental illness, literature and philosophy, and Wittgenstein. From 2018-22, Professor Harcourt served as Director of Research, Strategy and Innovation at the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council. In addition to his Faculty and college roles, as of October 2022 he is Professor of Philosophy in the university’s Department of Psychiatry, where he leads on Patient and Public Involvement at the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre.